How to Get Off the Rollercoaster of Life
September 24th, 2009Why do I keep on making the same mistakes over and over again? Youd think I would have learned by now, you say to yourself. And, when you read Autobiography in Five Short Chapters, you find yourself laughing, not because the poem is funny. You are laughing at yourself because you feel a connection to Portia Nelson's words. She is speaking your words.
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
Chapter 1
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost …. I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
Chapter 2
